Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Today I got to present the life cycle of a butterfly! First it starts with a caterpillar (or larva) which spends its time munching on leaves. After lots of munching, the caterpillar sheds its skin to make room for a bigger body. Then the caterpillar curls up fast asleep (usually under a leaf or other protection)and a hard shell or chrysalis forms around it. When it is done with the whole process (called metamorphosis) a butterfly emerges! The butterflies lay eggs under leaves and when it is ready, out pops a caterpillar!

April was National Poetry Month. As kindergarteners, we read poems (most of them funny) and wrote our own "I AM" poems. Some of the poems were selected to hang in the library for the month of April. We had...I am a cat, I am a Tiger, I am a flower, I am a book, I am an orange, and I am a Broncos Football. Congratulations to our poetry winners!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

On May Day (May 1), we had a tea party to practice using our manners. We got to dress fancy and we has hot tea with sugar cubes and other finger foods. We got to practice setting the table, say please and thank you, and pass food. Afterwards, the boys made ties and the girls made necklaces!

The PM class was invited to our 3rd grade buddies' classroom to hear their presentations on the Native Americans. They did a great job and taught us a lot. Afterwards, we got to eat food and drink juice with them. It was a lot of fun!

In AM kindergarten, we got to go upstairs to the middle school floor and watch some experiments by Mr. Birch's 8th graders. It was a lot of fun and we even learned a lot. The 8th graders really took care of the kindergarteners which was great to see and did an awesoem job explaining hard concepts to us like: inertia, centripetal force, expansion, pressure, speed, buoyancy, etc.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

On Friday we got to dress up like a core knowledge character. We had a Jane Goodall, Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, Dorthy (from the Wizard of Oz, President Obama, a cowboy, Casey Jones, Davy Crockett, an Indian princess, and Cleopatra!

This is my favorite spirit week theme! I love to clash (especially with lots of color) and it is so fun to see all of the hair styles. The crazy hair does tend to make everyone act a little crazy, but we still had fun!